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1979réf. 009754New York: Dutton 1979 Mustard cloth in illustrated dust jacket with one tiny edge tear else fine original pice intact $6.95. A modern fairy tale about a little girl with a donkey tail who must take a gold ring to the princess.which turns out to be more difficult than it sounds. Illustrated in b&w throughout. First Printing. Cloth Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Dutton hardcover books
1910réf. 009546London: Macmillan 1910 Green cloth pictorially stamped and titled in gilt spine and edges sunned slight spine lean sporadic foxing heavier at beginning and end some fraying at extremities. Kingsley's classic illustrated with 16 color plates by Warwick Goble preceded by a limited edition and trade edition in a larger format and with 32 plates. . First Thus. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Illus. by Warwick Goble. Thick 8vo. Macmillan hardcover books
1880réf. 009319New York: Thomas Nelson 1880 Date based on institutional holdings. 64 pgs.Pictorial boards edges worn and rubbed through binding shaken small marginal loss from one page offsetting opposite illustrations else clean. Juvenile verse with lovely color artwork on every page by artists Sowerby and Emmerson. Beautifully printed by the Dalziel Brothers Brain and Co. and Clay Son and Taylor. First American Edition. Pictorial Boards. Good to Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by John George Sowerby & Henry Hetherington Emmerson. 4to. Thomas Nelson unknown books
1933réf. 009349Racine WI: Whitman Publishing 1933 Color printed covers light soil and wear clean inside the entire book is printed on stiff card with a linen-like finish. The tale of goldilocks told in 12 pages including covers each page with color artwork by Charlotte Stone. Pictorial Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. Illus. by Charlotte Stone. 4to. Whitman Publishing unknown books
1980réf. 009203New York: Dial Press 1980 19W x 20H inches. Color printed promotional poster featuring the cover artwork for Grimm Bros' Hansel & Gretel illustrated by Susan Jeffers light foxing to both sides 2 marginal rubbed areas light edge wear. . Very Good. Illus. by Susan Jeffers. Item will require additional shipping charges. Dial Press books
1939réf. 008735New York: Holiday House 1939 Paperboard covers stamped in red with cloth spine red stain to top corner of rear board of Tom Thumb else fine. The books are housed in their original star-spangled slipcase which has a few damp stains and edge wear. A dear set of two small books Thumbelina & History of Tom Thumb. Each is illustrated by Hilda Scott and hand-colored limited to 1200 copies designed by Helen Gentry. See Bader pgs 213-14. . First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Hilda Scott. Square 32mo. Holiday House hardcover books
1964réf. 007833Cleveland and New York: World Publishing 1964 113 pgs. Pictorial cloth hardcover bookseller sticker on endpaper else fine; dust jacket with a few tiny edge tears and light wear original price clipped. The story of three brothers who live in a lush valley that turns to desert and how the magical King of the Golden River becomes involved with the brothers. Wonderful color and b&w artwork by Fritz Kredel. . 10th Printing. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Fritz Kredel. 8vo. World Publishing hardcover books
1986réf. 006048New York: Knopf 1986 Pictorial boards remainder mark else fine; matching dust jacket. Beautifully illustrated edition of the fairy tale. In slip case with original cassette tape of the tale as read by Cher. Tape not tested. First Thus. Very Good/Fine. Illus. by Robert Van Nutt. Oblong 4to. Knopf hardcover books
1950réf. 000576New York: Limited Editions Club 1950 41 pgs. #1283/1500. Signed By Edmund Dulac. Maroon cloth with inlaid brass cockerel lt. oxidization prev. owner's name lt. fox near gutter of front ep Maroon chemise with stamped cockerel design sp. faded. Maroon slipcase with fading at edges and wear to bottom flap. Illustrated and decorated by Dulac his first work for the Limited Edition Club. First Limited Edition. Very Good. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1988réf. 003806Boston: Little Brown and Company 1988 Orange boards with color pastedown; color illustrated dust jacket with a slightly darkened spine. A selection of rhymes from the Opie Collection of Children's Literature at Oxford. Illustrated by some of the most well-known artists of children's books such as Sendak Helen Oxenbury Michael Foreman etc. First Printing. Fine/Near Fine. Square 8vo. Little Brown and Company hardcover books
1973réf. 011569New York: Farrar Strauss Giroux 1973 Blue cloth with a whisper of sunning to edges; color pictorial dust jacket with mild wear to extremities 1/4" tear to rear panel price-clipped award seal present. Re-telling of an old Cornish play that was performed at Christmas time. Brilliantly pictured by Zemach in color throughout. Caldecott Medal. This copy signed by Margot Zemach on the half-title page. Second Printing. Cloth Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Margot Zemach. 4to. Farrar Strauss Giroux hardcover books
1975réf. 011555New York: Alfred A Knopf 1975 73 pgs. Hard cover with cloth spine sunning to board edges else fine; color illustrated dust jacket with a few edge tears and creasing light rubbing original price intact $4.95. Celebrated author and writing teacher John Gardner's first book for a juvenile audience; four fairy tales the title story plus The Tailor and the Giant The Miller's Mule and The Last Piece of Light. Illustrated in b&w by Charles Shields. . First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Charles Shields. 8vo. Alfred A Knopf hardcover books
réf. 71149Paris: Adrien Maeght Editeur printed on the presses of Ateliers Arte Paris 1982. Multi-lingual editions the key to La Fable du Hasard is only in French. Very Good. Six accordion-folding artist's books composed of cloth boards with color paper cover label and folding color lithographic interior each in the publisher's lucite slipcase with blemishes to the spines of five of the volumes at the center. Top and bottom panels sit slightly off-center. All housed in the illustrated paper covered slipcase 16.5 cm x 18 cm with moderate wear and a bit of abrasion to the bottom edge. The books have been well preserved in their slipcases lending them a fresh and bright appearance. Each book has a legend in multiple languages which occasionally vary. The languages include but are not strictly limited to the following: French English German and Spanish. La Fable du Hasard is in illustrated paper over boards. Le Petit Poucet Tom Thumb 1979; Blanche Neige Snow White 1974; Le Petit Chaperon Rouge Little Red Riding Hood 1965; La Fable du Hasard The Fable of Hazard 1968; La Belle au Bois dormant Sleeping Beauty 1982; Cendrillon Cinderella 1976. Swiss-born Warja Lavater moved to New York City in 1958 where she began designing scientific illustrations for Dell Publishing Visual series. It was at this time that Honegger-Lavater came under the influence of American street advertising and began using pictograms as graphic representations of linguistic elements in her works. Her books often contain a legend listing the meanings of the various symbols. They then proceed chronologically with the book unfolding and the story being told entirely by using the symbols and no words. Bright and colorful visual symbolic reinterpretations of these classic fairy tales by the noted Swiss artist. Adrien Maeght Editeur [printed on the presses of Ateliers Arte Paris] unknown books
1930réf. 011498New York: Illustrated Editions 1930 Undated circa 1930. 251 pgs. Black cloth decoratively stamped & titled in gilt with a color pastedown gilt a bit dulled light rubbing to extremities pages slightly age-toned. Selections from Hans Andersen and Charles Perrault illustrated by Harry Clarke with illustrations taken from Clarke's individual illustrated editions of Andersen and Perrault. This volume contains the color cover illustration which is not repeated plus four additional color plates and 22 full-page b&w drawings plus chapter heads and other decorations in line. . Illus. by Harry Clarke. Illustrated Editions hardcover books
1905réf. 011515New York London Paris Berlin Montreal: Raphael Tuck & Sons 1905 Color printed card covers with wear creasing and soil gift inscription marginal stain to top corner throughout. A selection of familiar nursery rhymes illustrated with 4 color plates plus color cover artwork not repeated with in other pages illustrated in red & black. The artwork features humanized animals. . Pictorial Card Covers. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Illus. by Edith M Hastings. 4to. Raphael Tuck & Sons paperback books
1911réf. 011154London: Macmillan 1911 Red cloth pictorially stamped and titled in gilt gilt bright spine slightly sunned front and rear pasted down endpapers with adhesive residue else clean and bright internally. A selection of folk tales collected primarily from Italy and Greece in the 17th Century. Illustrated here with 32 beautiful color plates by Warwick Goble. Uncommon in such lovely condition. First Trade Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Warwick Goble. Thick 4to. Macmillan hardcover books
1913réf. 010418London: Hodder and Stoughton 1913 113 pgs. White cloth decoratively stamped in teal and gilt light wear to top of spine 3 tiny marks to lower cover else a bright beautiful copy. Tipped in color frontis & 9 other very beautiful tipped in color plates with captioned guards. Dulac most celebrated for his "Arabian Nights" illustrations continues his heavily mid-east influenced style in this fabulous volume. Hughey 31a. First Trade. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Edmund Dulac. Thick 4to. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover books
1937réf. 008692Racine WI: Whitman Publishing 1937 140 pgs. Pictorial boards with mild external edge wear inner front hinge strengthened pages age-toned as usual last three pages with edge tears and creases not affecting text; dust jacket frayed with small losses. Mother Goose rhymes some original and some with Disney characters worked into the verses. Fun Disney artwork in color and line throughout. The book was produced with inexpensive materials so few copies survived in collectible condition. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Very Good/Good Minus. Illus. by Walt Disney Studio. Thick 8vo. Whitman Publishing unknown books
2014réf. 008447New York: Toon Books 2014 Pictorial boards as new. Neil Gaiman's adaptaion of the fairy tale with artwork by Mattoti after work he originally created for the Metropolitan Opera's stage production. Printed on tree-free paper. First Trade Edition. Pictorial Boards. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by Lorenzo Mattotti. Small 4to. Toon Books unknown books
1919réf. 007478New York: Frederick A Stokes 1919 Red cloth pictorially stamped in black titled in gilt with die-cut color pastedown to front cover light wear to extremities frontis tissue creased else nice internally; the dust jacket is missing large pieces with old repairs on verso heavily worn. A beautifully illustrated Mother Goose with 24 color plates plus full and partial page line art. A beautiful copy rare with the dust jacket. First Edition. Very Good/Good Minus. Illus. by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis. Thick 4to. Frederick A Stokes hardcover books
1920réf. 011401New York: M S Publishing 1920 Stiff pictorial wraps mild dust soil else fine. A booklet of uncut playing cards. Each card features a line from a Mother Goose rhyme and accompanying picture. The user was meant to cut out the cards and play the game as described on the inside covers fo the book. This copy is completely unused. I could locate no exact copies. The copy at Princeton was published by Cupples & Leon and dated 1918. This copy is undated. Pictorial Wraps. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Mary Belle McKellar. Folio. M S Publishing unknown books
1929réf. 011398New York: Platt & Munk 1929 1922 1929. PIctorial boards with rubbing to extremities matching dust jacket with light soil edge wear and rubbing. Includes Cinderella The Frog Prince and Sleeping Beauty. Cinderella is illustrated by Lois Lenski the other stories are illustrated by Eulalie. Includes color and line art. . Pictorial Boards. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Lois Lenski & Eulalie. Square 16mo. Platt & Munk unknown books
1965réf. 011425New York: Harcourt Brace & World 1965 Hard cover in color pictorial dust jacket with original price intact $4.50. Four fairy tales that Cummings wrote for his daughter with dreamy color artwork by John Eaton. Published posthumously. This copy is signed by the illustrator on the title page. . Signed by Illustrator. Stated First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Illus. by John Eaton. Small 4to. Harcourt Brace & World hardcover books
1865réf. 011440Philadelphia: Davis Porter & Co 1865 7.5 x 5.75 inches. 96 pgs. Illustrated covers with cloth spine small losses to paper corners worn occasional mark internally but clean text and images overall. Originally published individually as part of the Nursery Fairy Books Series in 1848 by Saxton & Kelt of Boston. The fairy tales are illustrated with lovely little engravings throughout the text plus full page frontis for each title. Interestingly two endings are given for Little Red Riding Hood the gruesome and the tame. Rare with only a handful of copies of this combined edition or the individual editions in institutions. Due to a pagination error it appears that two pages are missing but it is complete. Pictorial Cover. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Illus. by Engravings. 12mo. Davis, Porter & Co hardcover books
1912réf. 011433Chicago: Rand McNally & Company 1912 168 pgs 4 pgs of ads. Blue cloth ruled and titled in gilt color pastedown faint stain to upper cover light shelf wear touch-ups to pastedown 1/2" edge tear to title page. Six fairy stories including the title story; Ruse of the Princess; Prince Almor and the Blind Princess; The King's Mistake.; The Young Dragon; and The Red Troll. Illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright in 8 color plates. . First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Maginel Wright Enright. 4to. Rand McNally & Company hardcover books